The Nanny Chronicles of Hollywood by Julie Swales & Stella Reld

Author:Julie Swales & Stella Reld [Swales, Julie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paisley Press
Published: 2015-04-28T07:00:00+00:00

LAURA

Men are gross.

Seriously gross.

It’s not like I hate all men. I just have a very specific type that I’m interested in. I like guys who are creative, a little artsy. Good dressers. Totally comfortable talking about their feelings. The kind of guys who seem maybe even gay, until you get alone in a room with them and then—whoa!—definitely not gay. But my main requirement is that they be UNDER forty-five!

My dad is forty-five. Stephen Colbert is forty-five (at least). I am twenty-two, and I am not at all interested in someone who is forty-five.

Lillian has been driving me crazy. She’s become obsessed with setting me up with this friend of James’s. His name is Chris and he and James went to college together and are pretty close. Lillian’s known him for years, too. He’s a handsome guy, but totally not my type. He’s a guy’s guy, all into sports and cars and macho things that just don’t interest me at all. Plus he’s forty-five!

I guess he said something to Lillian about finding me attractive and she won’t leave it alone. She teases me, saying things like “Wear something nice at dinner tonight—Chris is coming!” I told her flat out that I wasn’t interested, but she didn’t seem to hear me. “Trust me, Laura,” she said. “I know a thing or two about men, and Chris is one of the good ones.”

“I don’t doubt that, Lillian,” I said, “but that doesn’t change the fact that he’s not my type, and that he’s your friend, which in my book puts him off-limits.”

“Laura!” she laughed. “Obviously I don’t care if you see him. You’re just being silly. And you think you have a type, but if you’re open, you might see that you can fall for someone completely against type. You know, James wasn’t my type at all. But he’s perfect for me.”

She had a point. James didn’t seem to be her type. He was too down-home Midwest, and she was all LA. In this case, though, it was Chris’s age that really made for a nonstarter, but I couldn’t say that to her because she might get offended. She was probably forty-two, maybe older. I learned you can never really trust how old Wikipedia says someone is; people in Hollywood know how to game that system.

“Lillian, leave her alone,” James barked. He was making himself a sandwich in the kitchen while we played with the kids in the living room. “I don’t want Chris near Laura. You don’t know him as well as I do.”

“But James—”

“Seriously, Lillian. What would Laura’s parents think of her bosses trying to set her up?”

I flushed a little at James’s reference to my parents, but was also kind of glad he made it. It seemed Lillian needed to be reminded of my age. And that she was my employer.

She dropped it then, but I noticed that Chris stopped by the house more frequently, sometimes when James wasn’t there. I couldn’t help but think Lillian had invited him. What was her angle? Why did she even want me to date him? I couldn’t figure it out.

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